ballot initiatives
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YESTERYEAR: Denver grapples with economic challenges in wake of oil price plunge
Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Cities across the country were facing challenges in the face of economic pressures – a recent study showed that 60 percent of 660 American cities surveyed were anticipating budget deficits in 1986 – but Denver was not demoralized, said Mayor Federico Peña in his State of the…
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Lockwood: Hickenlooper’s torrid red-light camera love affair continues
Coloradans are still left wishing Gov. John Hickenlooper knew how to quit red-light cameras. His torrid love affair with the red-light camera industry continues to be exposed with his latest move to veto, for the second year in a row, a bipartisan bill to restrict red-light cameras in Colorado. We have said it before, and…
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Letter: You may not count on my support for ‘Raise the Bar’ initiative
Editor: “Raise The Bar” is a newly packaged campaign designed to serve some elected officials who want to insulate their influence at the legislature from contrary intentions of a majority of voters. They wish to make it difficult for ballot questions immune from overturn by the legislature to reach the ballot. Initiative 96 resembles a…
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Letter: You can handle the truth about ColoradoCare
Editor: The current health care system has all the hallmarks of an abusive relationship. Well, it’s what we know. Maybe it’ll change. It would be hard to leave. Consider these symptoms. In most local markets, private hospital providers are able to act as a quasi-monopoly. Absent real market forces, pricing becomes arbitrary, capricious and even…